Jean Anouilh

After a 12-year absence, the actress is returning to the Williamstown Theatre Festival that shaped her early career nearly 40 years ago and where she continued to return over the decades. She is starring in a new play, Lucy Boyle's "The Blue Deep" that begins performances Wednesday and continues through July 8.

"It's a major event to have Blythe Danner here," says Jenney Gersten, producing director for the summer theater festival at Williams College in the northwest corner of Massachusetts.

At 69, Danner is a matriarchal beauty with a slightly smoky voice, gracious good manners and...

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Blythe Danner feels right at home on stage in the Berkshire hills.After a 12-year absence, the actress is returning to the Williamstown Theatre Festival that shaped her early career nearly 40 years ago and where she continued to return over the decades....